What else would you add to this coffee ice cream to make it your own? Let us know in the comments below! Pair it with chopped chocolate or chocolate sauce for the ideal simple dessert, or you can even add mix-ins of your choice. It’s the perfect coffee dessert for people who love an after dinner pick-me-up. Alex and I are coffee experts who have made just about every coffee drink in our Barista series, so as you’d imagine this one is a huge hit for us!
Whole milk Heavy cream Cornstarch Granulated sugar Vanilla extract Instant espresso powder
Side bonus: you can also use instant espresso powder for desserts! Often chocolate cake recipes or brownies call for espresso powder because it brings out the chocolate flavor. Try espresso powder in this Mocha Frappe, Flourless Brownie Pie or Chocolate Zucchini Cake. This homemade ice cream recipe has 54 mg caffeine per ½ cup serving, which is about ½ cup coffee (1 cup coffee has 95 mg caffeine). This is calculated using Delallo’s figure of 36 mg caffeine per 1 tsp (2 g) of espresso powder.
Make the custard (5 minutes): Simmer cornstarch, whole milk, sugar, and espresso powder for 4 to 5 minutes, taking care that it doesn’t boil. Then add in the heavy cream, vanilla and salt. Cool the custard (1 hour): Transfer the mixture to a large metal or glass bowl and place the bowl in a smaller bowl of ice water for 1 hour. Churn (25 minutes): Churn the custard in an ice cream maker. After 25 minutes, it makes a soft serve texture. Freeze or “ripen” for hard ice cream texture (at least 2 hours or overnight): Freeze the ice cream for 2 to 4 hours for a scoop-able, hard ice cream texture (as shown in the photos).
Freezer bowl ice cream maker (inexpensive). Here’s the 2 quart freezer bowl ice cream maker we use; it’s a little more expensive but very durable. You’ll need to freeze the base of the ice cream maker overnight before making this recipe. Automatic ice cream maker (expensive but easy to use). Only for avid ice cream fans! This automatic ice cream maker is larger and more expensive. It requires no pre-freezing of the base, which is handy. We use this one, but only because making ice cream is our job!
Chocolate: Add ¾ cup chocolate chips or chunks as a mix in, or use the melted chocolate method from this chocolate chip ice cream. Fudge: Add this fudge ripple as a mix-in. Chopped nuts: Try chocolate covered almonds or other chopped nuts like pecans or walnuts. Pretzels: Add crushed pretzels or chocolate covered pretzels. Waffle cone: Add crushed waffle cone pieces! Chocolate sauce: Drizzle with chocolate sauce for a decadent dessert
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